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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






2. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






3. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






4. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






5. Processes that organize and manage the project team






6. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






7. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






8. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






9. Budgeted cost of work performed






10. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






11. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






12. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






13. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






14. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






15. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






16. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






17. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






18. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






19. The process of completing each project procurement






20. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






21. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






22. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






23. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






24. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






25. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






26. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






27. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






28. A method of estimating a component of work. the work is decomposed into more detail. an estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work - and these estimates are then aggregated into






29. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






30. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






31. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






32. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






33. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






34. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






35. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






36. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






37. Provider of products - services or results






38. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups






39. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






40. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






41. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






42. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






43. Narrative description of products - services or results






44. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






45. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






46. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






47. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






48. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






49. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






50. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance